Two days after the strong earthquake (measuring 7.2 magnitude on Richter scale) hit many Kurdish areas in western Iran, the residents of the earthquake-stricken areas in the Qasr-e-Shirin, Sar-Pol-e Zahab and Salas-Babajani cities have reported that government officials are neglecting the relief efforts to these areas. Moreover, the office of Kermanshah Forensic Medicine has reported 460 deaths and 7460 injured people. But residents of the…
Read moreThe “Week in brief” by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) is a weekly review of the most important human rights news and developments from and about Iran’s Kurdish areas. Iran affirms death penalty for Kurdish political prisoners An Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Court has affirmed death sentences of two Kurdish political prisoners charged with “enmity against God”. The death sentences were issued after the two prisoners spent years…
Read moreThe “Week in brief” by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) is a weekly review of the most important human rights news and developments from and about Iran’s Kurdish areas. Prisoner hanged on murder charges in Iran’s Orumiyeh A death row prisoner, Tohid Mohammad Baqerloo, from the city of Khoy, was executed in Iran’s Orumiyeh Central Prison on 1 November. He was transferred from the prison’s ward 1-2…
Read moreKurdistan Human Rights Netwrok (KHRN)- Sherko Moarefi, a native of the Kurdish border town of Baneh, was 33 at the time of his arrest by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps in a village near his hometown in October 2008. He was tried by the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Saqez, which sentenced him to death on charges of: – Membership in an outlawed Kurdish party, the Komalah…
Read moreThe “Week in brief” by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) is a weekly review of the most important human rights news and developments from and about Iran’s Kurdish areas. Iran forces shoot dead a Kurdish tradesperson in Orumiyeh Iranian armed forces have opened fire on two civilian Kurdish tradesmen and killed one of them while the other escaped in the Al-Wassan area of Orumiyeh Province. The Kurdish…
Read moreThe “Week in brief” by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) is a weekly review of the most important human rights news and developments from and about Iran’s Kurdish areas. Iran court jails two Kurdish political prisoners for five years Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Court in Orumiyeh has sentenced two Kurdish defendants, Kamran Mousazadeh and Fakhreddin Esris, to five years in prison, respectively. They were sentenced on charges of…
Read moreIran security forces interrogate Kurdish labour activists The Law Enforcement Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran have questioned four Kurdish labour activists in Sanandaj following a new wave of clampdown on labour activists in Iran’s Kurdish areas. Two of the activists, Sharif Saeed Panah and Muzaffar Salehnia, are members of Free Trade Union of Iran Workers. The other two activists, Galib Hosseini and Khalid Hosseini, are…
Read moreIranian forces continue arresting pro-independence Kurdish demonstrators Iranian intelligence agents and security forces have continued to arrest and interrogate civilian Kurds who had taken part in celebrations after a referendum on Kurdish statehood was held in neighbouring Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Region. KHRN has obtained names of some of those Iranian Kurds detained and questioned at various detention centres of the Iranian security forces in some of…
Read moreIran fiercely crackdown on mass Kurdish pro-independence rallies Iranian security forces have detained dozens of Kurds following widespread public rallies across cities and towns of Iran’s Kurdish region, which cheered an independence referendum held by neighbouring Iraqi Kurdistan on 25 September. Iran’s Kurds poured into the streets on the eve of 25 September chanting slogans in support of the Iraqi Kurdish independence vote. Iranian intelligence agents and…
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